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Department of Architecture

 

University Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Social Design

Teaching lead: Mathematics and Programming (Design Tripos)

Director: Collective Intelligence & Design Group (CAMCID.pdf)

Director: climaTRACES Lab at CRASSH

Course Director: MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies | Director of Studies in Design: Churchill College

Fellow: Cambridge Zero and Churchill College

Visiting academic: Caltech and Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata

Socio-technical design
Computational social sciences
Human-in-the-loop AI
Environmental data science
Climate action
Urban systems

Dr Ramit Debnath is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Social Design, and an Academic Director at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of Churchill College and Cambridge Zero and has visiting roles at the Caltech and the lndian Statistical Institute. Ramit sits on the steering committee of Cambridge's Centre for Human-Inspired AI (CHIA), Centre for Data-driven Discovery (C2D3) and Centre for Climate Repair (CCR). Ramit is the Director of the Collective Intelligence & Design Group, and the climaTRACES Lab based at CRASSH. He is also the Cambridge lead for Caltech-Cambridge Climate and Social Intelligence Lab

His interdisciplinary research integrates engineering and computational social sciences with systems thinking, socio-technical design, and behavioral interventions to address barriers to climate action. He focuses on how individual behaviors influence collective decision-making dynamics and explores the potential of emergent AI to replicate these mechanisms to solve global challenges.

A Gates Scholar, Dr. Debnath earned his MPhil and PhD at Cambridge and has held positions at Caltech, the Indian Statistical Institute, the International Energy Agency, IIT Bombay, and Stanford University.

University Assistant Professor
Course Director, MAUS
DoS in Design, Churchill College
PI: Collective Intelligence & Design Group